Sports Tourism

Sports Tourism :-

Sports tourism can be defined as travelling to other countries for the sake of sports. Sport is the prime motivational reason for travel and the touristic or leisure element may act to reinforce the overall experience. Sport tourism presently is quickly developing segment of the travel business and has get to be extremely prevalent as it makes economic development. Main source market for sports tourism that are most interested for international sports are United Kingdom,United states,Italy,Spain,etc.Common events that include international events such as world cups,Olympics, formula one.

In India, Sports Tourism can be separated into two parts:-(1).General Sports(2).Adventurous Sports

General Sports tourism is still in its growing stages as except cricket there are not many sports in which the country is involved, football,tennis are still in its younger years whereas the country is not as good in hockey and Olympics as it use to be. However, the huge following of cricket in the country, due to many International leagues happening a lot of tourists visit the country for 1-2 months. Some events like world cup, Asia cup also let people visit this cricket dominant country.If tourism of this type has to increase than surely the country needs to promote sports like football , hockey and Olympics.

Adventurous sports contain mountaineering, rock-climbing, scuba diving, water rafting, kayaking, canoeing, sailing, surfing, water scooting. Aero sports like: ballooning, paragliding, hand gliding. These sports offer great adventure for an individual, so a lot of people come to do this in foreign countries however these adventures sports are almost available in every country so i guess this is a threat to this section of tourism.